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Insane by Korn

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Korn

Insane

Release date: 20th October 2016

From The Serenity of Suffering
Track 1
3:50
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'Insane' opens The Serenity of Suffering with a track that balances pummeling heaviness against melodic restraint. The song builds around a staggering riff and effects-laden guitar work that carries an urgent, impassioned vocal performance from Jonathan Davis. Lyrically, the track maps a landscape of internal decay and isolation, where the speaker finds themselves beaten down by intrusive thoughts and unable to escape a mounting sense of horror at their own complicity. The song's architecture mirrors its subject: repetition becomes a form of entrapment, the chorus phrase "that's not right out insane" hammering home a paradox of recognition without relief. Davis sings of being "constantly beat up inside" and unable to find anyone who understands, the refrain circling back on itself as if the speaker is trapped in a loop of their own making. It is a portrait of psychological siege, rendered through Korn's signature collision of abrasive and hypnotic textures.

"Insane" is a single by Korn, from the album The Serenity of Suffering, released 20th October 2016. The track is 3:50 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Korn.

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Korn

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Lyrics

Insane

Life!

Things keep ending up this way
Another notch is carved away
In the thoughts of mass decay
Funny how things end up this way

Beaten down, dominated by its sound
Growing deep within my head
Softly dying, its soul is shed
Eating me all up inside
This cancer finds everything I hide
Living my life horrified
Nothing will keep this pacified and out my life

Life!
That's not right out insane

Satisfaction is delayed
Its motivation is displayed
Flaunting its misogyny
Funny how I thought it'd go away

Beaten down, dominated by its sound
Growing deep within my head
Softly dying, its soul is shed
Eating me all up inside
This cancer finds everything I hide
Living my life horrified
Nothing will keep this pacified and out my life

Life!
That's not right out insane

I'm constantly beat up inside, and I'm the one to blame
No one can relate to me, that's not right out insane
(That's not right out insane)
(That's not right out insane)
That's not right out insane
That's not right out insane
That's not right out insane
That's not right out insane

Beaten down, dominated by its sound
Living my life horrified
Nothing will keep this pacified and out my life

Beaten down, dominated by its sound
Growing deep within my head
Softly dying, its soul is shed
Eating me all up inside
This cancer finds everything I hide
Living my life horrified
Nothing will keep this pacified and out my life

Life!
That's not right out insane
That's not right out insane!

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Track details

From The Serenity of Suffering

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The Serenity of Suffering
The Serenity of Suffering
Korn
21st October 2016
Track number
1
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2016
  1. 1Insane
    3:50
  2. 2Rotting In Vain
    3:33
  3. 3Black Is the Soul
    4:01
  4. 4The Hating
    4:23

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Brian “Head” Welch, Jonathan Davis, MUNKY, Ray Luzier, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu
    Producer
    Nick Raskulinecz
    Engineer
    Nathan Yarborough
    Drums
    Ray Luzier
    Vocals
    Jonathan Davis
    Additional Engineering
    Chris Collier
    Additional Programming
    Rick Norris
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Paul Suarez
    Bass Guitar
    Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu
    Mastering Engineer
    Josh Wilbur
    Mixing Engineer
    Josh Wilbur
    Percussion
    Ray Luzier
    Programmer
    Jules Venturini, Nick “Sluggo” Suddarth
    Rhythm Guitar
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